What you guys think >> http://www.dailytech.com/Mainstream+Support+for+Windows+XP+Ends+Next+Week/article14797.htm
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Mainstream Support for Windows XP Ends Next Week
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I have one of the XP based netbooks mentioned in the article. I bought all of two weeks ago. The OS does appear to be stable and the machine does what it is supposed to do. I saw another article a week or so ago that MS's plan is to push as many XP users, including netbooks, to Windows 7 as soon as they can. The only issue I have with it is that I have found a handful of applications that won't install on it due to screen resolution issues. This machine has 1024x576. There is no way I can find to get it to the 800x600 those applications want. That includes Trend Micro's internet suite but Kaspersky has one aimed right at netbooks.
Glenn
Glenn
GT182
Charter Member
Looks like they're cutting support for XP short by 3 years. 2014 was the date they'd given before for their support of XP to end.
Just shows how much M$ wants to push Vista on us, and Windows7 once it's out. No more freedom of choice for those of us wanting to hang on to their best OS..... XP.
Just shows how much M$ wants to push Vista on us, and Windows7 once it's out. No more freedom of choice for those of us wanting to hang on to their best OS..... XP.
Panther_99FS
Retired SOH Administrator
Great!
This means that a Windows 7 release is just around the corner....
(Glad I decided to hold off on getting a new system until after Windows 7)
This means that a Windows 7 release is just around the corner....
(Glad I decided to hold off on getting a new system until after Windows 7)
Oh,I don't know.I have been using Vista for 15 months now with no real problems,I like it just fine and if most people would take a couple of hours to read and learn they wouldn't mind it. I don't miss XP at all.
The problem is everyone listens to all of the nonsense posted about Vista. As far as Windows 7 I will wait and see.I don't think they are ready with it yet.
The problem is everyone listens to all of the nonsense posted about Vista. As far as Windows 7 I will wait and see.I don't think they are ready with it yet.
wombat666
Administrator
Key security updates will not be ended until 2014. I wouldn't advise anybody to turn off the automatic updating ! Dangerous game...
I have been doing the exact opposite of you dominique. I tell everyone to turn of AUTOMATIC updates and do manual updates....for Windows, AV, everything....I have seen too many problems caused by automatic updating. I once lost about 500meg of sim files due to them becoming corrupt while I was copying them to my back up drive and my AV kicking on an automatic update. The source files and the copied files were all unrecoverable...and I not only shut off that AV's auto update, I stopped using that AV altogether. My sister-in-law cries about how horrible XP SP3 is, but when pressed about how she has been trying to install it, she said "Auto Update". I told her to turn off Auto Updates, do manual updates...and she now has SP3 installed and loving it.
OBIO
Skyferret
Charter Member
ME too. I don't want to come home and find a buncha crap in my front yard I didn't ask for. I do it manually and I use custom install instead of express. I usually get just the high priority and security updates. So yeah, I get to say who hangs around and who does not.
As for the next generation of OS, It's been said that Win 7 will have ease of backwards compatibility. http://windows7news.com/2008/04/09/windows-7-backwards-compatibility/
If I could dust of a game from 1996 and Win 7 would digest it without a hitch, I'm all for it. I hear all sorts of talk about compatibility issues with Vista but I don't know because I'm not using it.
Sky (XP ferret)
Looks like they're cutting support for XP short by 3 years. 2014 was the date they'd given before for their support of XP to end.
Just shows how much M$ wants to push Vista on us, and Windows7 once it's out. No more freedom of choice for those of us wanting to hang on to their best OS..... XP.
You know.. They burned me with not allowing me to buy computers with XP on them. So I went to Mac because I could put XP on it. Now they are discontinuing XP by 3 years early.
lol....
and... and ... they fired Aces!!!!
Mac baby.. Ubuntu, Mac, and anything else..
XP was a diamond! A rare jewel. But MS keep aiming at their own foot to somehow shoot it off!
oops.. (takes a deep breath.. )
Bill
GT182
Charter Member
It's still a diamond as far as I'm concerned Bill.
And you're right about M$ shooting their foot off. Their aim is getting better, and one of these days...... POW! :costumes: I'm very surprised tho they haven't been nailed for monopolizing the computer market. Especially with games running only on their OS. Back when I switched to from 2000 pro it was the hardest change to swallow. XP was new and fresh. People were raving about how good it was. Over time I couldn't take the pressure of not seeing what it was all about. Eventually I bit the bullet and did a dual boot. It was hard to get use to the look. Days passed so quickly and before I knew it I was booting to XP all the time. The lure of learning something new seemed to be my drive.
XP has grown to be just as stable as 2000 pro was. More bells and whistles, a better gui. Apealing. And not to mention the best overall compatability al the way around.
Windows Vista.......NOT IN MY LIFETIME. Vista is the Frankenstein of all creations. Windows ME anyone?? Windows ME was on my system as a dual boot option. I still remember the advertising M$ aired on TV when the little kid played piano on the keyboard. That quaint restore option. Wasn't that neat. I was so impressed with it that I mailed it back to Renton WA with a note telling them I wanted my money back for their delapidated, over-rated garbage. Never did get a response back.
Windows 7 sounds like it may be the stallion of the stables. Maybe they finally figured out what the consumers want.
With all that said, I'm holding my breath.
XP has grown to be just as stable as 2000 pro was. More bells and whistles, a better gui. Apealing. And not to mention the best overall compatability al the way around.
Windows Vista.......NOT IN MY LIFETIME. Vista is the Frankenstein of all creations. Windows ME anyone?? Windows ME was on my system as a dual boot option. I still remember the advertising M$ aired on TV when the little kid played piano on the keyboard. That quaint restore option. Wasn't that neat. I was so impressed with it that I mailed it back to Renton WA with a note telling them I wanted my money back for their delapidated, over-rated garbage. Never did get a response back.
Windows 7 sounds like it may be the stallion of the stables. Maybe they finally figured out what the consumers want.
With all that said, I'm holding my breath.
GT182
Charter Member
re games, thats all up to the developer and how they code their game, has sod all to do with microsoft
But don't you think M$ has their hands in it? I do.
Utter nonsense on Vista,I run everything on it with 1 small problem in cfs 1 that we have figured out.As I said before if you take a small amount of time and learn what the program is all about,then tweak it a little it will run like a champ.NOTHING runs great out of the box,not XP or 98 or whatever.Stop listening to all of the people who hate Vista who have either never run it or are too lazy to learn how.Back when I switched to from 2000 pro it was the hardest change to swallow. XP was new and fresh. People were raving about how good it was. Over time I couldn't take the pressure of not seeing what it was all about. Eventually I bit the bullet and did a dual boot. It was hard to get use to the look. Days passed so quickly and before I knew it I was booting to XP all the time. The lure of learning something new seemed to be my drive.
XP has grown to be just as stable as 2000 pro was. More bells and whistles, a better gui. Apealing. And not to mention the best overall compatability al the way around.
Windows Vista.......NOT IN MY LIFETIME. Vista is the Frankenstein of all creations. Windows ME anyone?? Windows ME was on my system as a dual boot option. I still remember the advertising M$ aired on TV when the little kid played piano on the keyboard. That quaint restore option. Wasn't that neat. I was so impressed with it that I mailed it back to Renton WA with a note telling them I wanted my money back for their delapidated, over-rated garbage. Never did get a response back.
Windows 7 sounds like it may be the stallion of the stables. Maybe they finally figured out what the consumers want.
With all that said, I'm holding my breath.